Human Papillomavirus: Vaccination

(asked on 16th December 2014) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, when he expects the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Innoculation to make a recommendation on whether all adolescent boys should be included in the national HPV vaccination programme.


Answered by
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Jane Ellison
This question was answered on 5th January 2015

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), the body that advises the government on all immunisation matters has set up a human papillomavirus (HPV) sub-committee to consider a number of key issues on HPV vaccination, including the routine vaccination of adolescent boys.

The HPV sub-committee will report its findings to the JCVI following consideration of work modelling the impact and cost-effectiveness of extending HPV vaccination to adolescent boys. We are advised that it is currently anticipated that a model being developed at Warwick University can be presented to the HPV sub-committee in the second half of 2015. A separate model being developed by Public Health England may not be completed until early 2017.

We are furthermore advised that the JCVI and sub-committee may need to consider both studies before taking a final view on the impact and cost-effectiveness of extending HPV vaccination to adolescent boys and may therefore not be in a position to do so before early 2017.

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